| From Unity, 27 October 2006 |
Anti-racist musicalPupils and a teacher in Limavady High School have just finished writing and composing a musical that is set to become well known beyond the boundaries of the County Derry town. Gracie’s Diary will have its premiere on 10 December in the hall of the school. It tells the story of a Ukrainian girl who comes to the North of Ireland to try to make a better life for herself. All she finds is prejudice and hostility, and she ends up a victim of date-rape drugs. The music teacher, Mr Douglas, told Unity: “When a woman from Ukraine lost both legs from frostbite in the winter of 2004, I was on holidays. I received the news in Spain and thought, this isn’t really the town I was born in—or is it? I have felt haunted by this ever since; and when I discovered that some of my pupils had been equally shocked, we sat down and decided to write Gracie’s diary.” The Riverside Theatre in Coleraine has taken the musical into its winter progamme, and the premiere in the school is a sell-out. Unity is going to publish an interview with Mr Douglas shortly, and a CPI member, Marion Baur, is at present negotiating to find a way to take the musical to the UZ Festival 2007 in Dortmund. |
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